CVE-2007-3223 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Sun Solaris 10 systems by sending malformed NFS requests, requiring immediate patching to maintain availability.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-3223?
CVE-2007-3223 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sun Solaris, published on 14 Jun 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in the NFS server in Sun Solaris 10 before 20070613 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via certain XDR data in NFS requests, probably related to processing of data by the xdr_bool and xdrmblk_getint32 functions.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3223?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Sun Solaris, Sun Sunos.
How do I fix CVE-2007-3223?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-3223 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-3223 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-3223 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3fxq-f952-g28c.